First-ever summit will examine region's growth

Elected officials from the six-county region will meet Thursday for a first-ever summit to examine the region's future land-use patterns.

Mayors, city council members and supervisors from Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer, Yolo, Sutter and Yuba counties will gather at Sacramento's downtown library branch to discuss a plan to manage the projected population growth in a way that minimizes traffic congestion and the degradation of air quality.

Also at the meeting, the Sacramento Area Council of Governments will release the results of a telephone survey of local attitudes toward growth.

The growth-management plan the officials will discuss is the Draft Preferred Blueprint Scenario for 2050, developed by SACOG through a series of community workshops that focused on how to accommodate the expected 1.7 million gain in local population by the middle of the century.

The meeting is scheduled from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. For more information call (916) 340-6224.